Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread Scot P. Floess


I think its in /usr/share/desktop

DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE

or something like that

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:



Dear gnome developers - could you *possibly* be more anti-Unix? I mean,
thanks *so* much for trying to turn Linux into Windows or Macs


So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the login
screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly refuses to
consider such an idea.

I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my user's new
system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and there's nothing
vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from gnome.

Anyone got a pointer?

   mark, frustrated

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 10:52:12 -0600 (CST)
Valeri Galtsev wrote:

> > Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left,
> > some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and I
> > forget what else.
> 
> In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you drop down choices of
> Desktop Environments (DE) installed appears only after I click on
> particular user. In other words, when user has password field, he also has
> a gear to click on to choose DE.

With gdm the gear only shows up if you have more than one whatever.session file 
in /usr/share/xsessions.  gnome-classic-session and gnome-session-xsession 
provides this file for gnome sessions,  mate-session-manager provides it for 
mate, and I don't know what provides it for kde.

lightdm is a lot more configurable than gdm, and it's easy to use that instead:

systemctl disable gdm
systemctl enable lightdm
systemctl isolate graphical.target

Then you can easily configure /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf to do 
pretty much what you want it to do. I haven't yet figured out how to get rid of 
the blank photo man beside the password prompt, though.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread m . roth
Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Fri, March 11, 2016 10:46 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Richard wrote:
 Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500
 From: m.r...@5-cent.us

 So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the
 login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly
 refuses to consider such an idea.

 I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my
 user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and
 there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from
 gnome.
>>>
>>> With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on
>>> the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I
>>> select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as
>>> an option?
>>
>> Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left,
>> some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and
>> I forget what else.
>
> In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you drop down choices of
> Desktop Environments (DE) installed appears only after I click on
> particular user. In other words, when user has password field, he also has
> a gear to click on to choose DE.
>
> I hope, this helps.

Ah, that was it, it's not on the screen where you put in your username,
it's on the password screen. On the other hand, the easier solution was to
just create /etc/sysconfig/desktop, which did not exist, and add the two
lines to it.

Thanks, folks.

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread Valeri Galtsev

On Fri, March 11, 2016 10:46 am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Richard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500
>>> From: m.r...@5-cent.us
>>>
>>> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the
>>> login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly
>>> refuses to consider such an idea.
>>>
>>> I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my
>>> user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and
>>> there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from
>>> gnome.
>>
>> With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on
>> the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I
>> select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as
>> an option?
>
> Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left,
> some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and I
> forget what else.

In my case the gear which when clicked of gives you drop down choices of
Desktop Environments (DE) installed appears only after I click on
particular user. In other words, when user has password field, he also has
a gear to click on to choose DE.

I hope, this helps.

Valeri

>
>  mark
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread m . roth
Richard wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500
>> From: m.r...@5-cent.us
>>
>> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the
>> login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly
>> refuses to consider such an idea.
>>
>> I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my
>> user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and
>> there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from
>> gnome.
>
> With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on
> the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I
> select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as
> an option?

Fascinating. Not in ours. It displays our issue, and in the upper left,
some icons that let you deal with sound, I think, connection, maybe, and I
forget what else.

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 and display managers

2016-03-11 Thread Richard


> Date: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:33:57 -0500
> From: m.r...@5-cent.us
> 
> So, now that I've gotten that out, the KDE display manager, on the
> login screen, easily lets you choose window managers. Gnome utterly
> refuses to consider such an idea.
> 
> I've just yum groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces" on one of my
> user's new system... and I cannot figure out, not in googling, and
> there's nothing vaguely obvious anywhere, how to change to KDE from
> gnome.
> 

With gnome there is a "gear wheel" on the password entry page -- on
the right below the password box, next to the "sign in" label. If I
select it I can switch between gnome and mate. Does KDE show there as
an option?


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